Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "The Lincoln Project" channel.

  1. I miss the times when a president was able enough and young enough to speak fluently, freely without teleprompter in coherent sentences.
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  2. Compare Trump 2024 with 2016 and earlier. It becomes even clearer something is terribly wrong.
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  3. And we will keep suffering until we learn this lesson and do. It is up to us to decide how long we want to.
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  4. "It's okay when we do it" is not acceptable. Same rules and punishments for everyone. Noone should be above the law.
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  5.  @sallysmithson9713  Not necessarily. Bernie Sanders is 83 and can still do it. But even he is not as energetic as in his prime.
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  6. Trump indeed tries to apply policy ideas from 100 years ago. In a totally different America, in a totally different world, in a totally different time and technology. There is no "us" and "them" anymore ... there is only "we".
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  7. Wrong. Noone voted for this. Noone said ever Trump would golf while Musk and Trumps advisors doing the presidency. Noone voted to fire hundreds of thousands of federal employees. Noone voted to invade Gaza, Canada, Mexico or Greenland. Noone voted to betray the NATO allies. Noone voted to become friends with an adversary like Putin.
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  8. Europe already considered an European military force during Trumps 1st term. But it was put on hold because there was still NATO and there are some logistical and command issues connected with this. Now I'm sure this project will be continued. Trump accidentally might awoken a 4th military gigant with this which can become the technologically most sophisticated military force on the planet.
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  9. What about the 77 mio who believed a well known liar?
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  10. The enemy of democracy is not authoritarianism (left or right flavor) but indifference.
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  11. "It can never happen to US" ... is a dangerous assumption
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  12. Anyone else would sit in prison waiting for trial for the stuff Trump did. Anyone who attacked judges, prosecutors or their family as Trump did would rot in prison for this but not Trump. Anyone who breaks court rulings as barsen and often as Trump does would go to prison waiting for trial but not Trump. He receives already a lot of privilege without realizing it. And I think it is a mistake Trump needs to be made an example to show the people in America that the rule of law is not dead yet.
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  13. But we do want a better economy, a better border, and safer children ... and I am convinced Harris and Walz actually want that too. Trump just wants to stay out of prison and his mates wants to create a deepstate with Trump as weak figurehead they can manipulate while they pulling all the strings and implement Project 2025.
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  14. All dictators are narcissists. Learn to detect them.
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  15. I hope humanity learns some good lessons from this one.
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  16. Trump without makeup and hairpiece is scaring me. To be honest it looks so different my first question in mind was "Who is that?".
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  17. And noone is stopping them. Not even the courts are willing to enforce the full extend of their powers. Congress could assert it's power as well and end of all Musks government contracts and cut all federal funding to him but they don't.
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  18. No it's on the 77 mio who voted for this guy.
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  19. At least Biden can form complete sentences even if it takes a while.
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  20. Someone should remind them that Roosevelt sat in the chair becaue of polio.
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  21. Trump just accepted a 91 mio dollar payment from a donor to pay for his bond to appeal the E. Jean Carroll case. It's rumored the money comes indirectly from Putin. What do you think is the favor Trump has to provide for this money?
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  22. It's easier to quote the sentences Trump not messed up the meaning, grammar, pronounciation or thought.
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  23. Do you really think popularity still matters to Trump? To his ego certainly but not for any worries about elections. Either because the elections are so unfair already that Democrat needs a +10 advantage to have any chances or because Trump just overturns the results and declares it "legal" ("I'm only saving America"). Do you see. The moment free and fair elections and/or the rule of law are gone you lose total control over the guy even as a Maga supporter yourself.
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  24. This is perhaps the greatest irony on this. BRICS was founded to end American dominance on the planet and end the dollar as the leading world currency. And Trump practically wants to join it and is already helping their goal because he thinks the guys in there are his best buddies.
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  25. One thing has become so clear in the last weeks. Trump is not in charge. He is only the vehicle for the guys around him. And that is not just Musk but primarily him who practically bought the US presidency for less than Twitter costed.
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  26. Trump wins because Congress constantly let him. If the Republic falls it will be on them.
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  27. They forgotten that they serve the american people not Donald Trump. They forgotten that Republicans support the Republic. Republic means "Has No King". They forgotten that Congress is sovereign meaning all power stems from them. The president just implements what they decide.
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  28. The last successfull nation building project was West Germany. Since then one failure after another because America is not really interested in nation building but in exploitation and stockholder value maximizing.
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  29. Russia is on the brink on losing this war. They had horrible losses and incursions into their own territory. There are parts of Russia under Ukrainian control already. They lost a lot of important critical infrastructure. The Russian economy is falling apart same as the financial system. Yes Russia wants to stop the war. To rearm and come back. But even better would be to get everything they not managed to get by force on the negotiation table. And Trump surrenders to him in order to get his appraisal. This is the only thing Trump can do make a deal on the basis of surrender like a coward he is.
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  30. "clapping like a bunch of mutant seals" ... excellent analogy
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  31. The voters took all the power the Democrats had. They cannot outvote the Republicans. And the Republicans are mostly cowards and not dare oppose Trump. Did you know that committees, policy and investigations are controlled and managed by the majority party. Even if the Democrats wanted to investigate something or vote on something or make a new law they can't.
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  32. And he is not stopping. Even on space matters. He will go to NASA soon and cut it down threatening programs like the Artemis Program who is tasked to bring America to Mars one day. And only to have much more federal money for his own company SpaceX.
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  33.  @jimrogers2390  Because he really was too old and America needs fresh energy.
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  34. The Republican party has become unrecognizable by now betraying their own principles of law and order, freedom, self-determination and even small government by involving itself more and more into peoples lifes. Even the name itself Republicans (Republic = Has no King) is undermined by centralization of power into Trump making him above the law and king in all but name.
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  35. Define "Being an America"? What do you mean? Lying, cheating, breaking the law, rape, cheating on your wife while she is pregnant and trying to hide it to look better on the polls, cheating to investors by overvaluing and cheating to the US taxpayer by undervalueing the same property? Breaking the law by keeping top secrets information and not giving them back when asked? Selling American Secrets for money? Overturning the will of the people? Lying people into a frenzy making them storm the capitol to prevent another being announced president? Breaking the constitution? Calling soldier and veterans suckers and loser? And this isn't even scrating the surface of a lifetime of fraud, criminality and incompetence ... is that the America you mean? If that is the America you mean I hope it disappears quickly because it has no future.
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  36. I think Maga misunderstand something. Trump and Musk really care about waste, fraud, abuse ... when they profit from it. Evidence: They fired all investigators who looked into waste, fraud and abuse of Musks companies. And Musk tries to close agencies who sole purpose is to protect the little guys from companies and find waste, fraud and abuse. Agencies who conincidentally had running investigations about waste, fraud and abuse into Musks companies at the time of the firing.
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  37. It's 8 mio per day (x365 = 2.9 bn = 2900 million $ per year). Imagine getting social security of 8 mio per day.
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  38. This is what I cannot understand. America fought a cold war against soviet russia for 40 years. Putin wants to remake the Sovjet Union. Putin is the "R" in BRICS an organization whos sole purpose is to end American dominance and the US Dollar as the leading currency on the planet. Why is Trump aligning with this guy?
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  39. In other words Trumps stupidity and incompetency brought the world a couple steps closer to WW3 and nuclear extinction of the human race.
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  40. Hey did you know that YT is filtering out the word c-o-ll-a-bo-r-a-t-o-r-s now?
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  41. I wished it was just hyperbally but this is America 2025.
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  42. "(...) and until you cast him down you have failed."
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  43. I support the message but there was too much teleprompting for my taste. And I am very thankful that Trump is not there speaking it would be a slap in the face to values like freedom, democracy, sacrifice, duty and honor.
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  44. Have you heard that one of them got himself killed in a shooting with the police and others already re-arrested again for breaking laws again?
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  45. Do you really think any of this would change something right now? What could possibly be bad enough to make the GOP in Congress instantly impeach him and all Americans especially Maga so angry that they want Trump gone?
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  46. I wished this was just a trailer for the next Hollywood video.
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  47. What is fearmongering here? Doge indeed already fired 6,700 IRS employees right in the middle when they process tax returns. Doge send their employees hackers to access the IRS information systems. They work as "special advisors" there. Same as in the US treasury.
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  48. Unless we are god.
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